The right chemistry: workshop brings together grad students from different faculties for one common goal

Published: 25 September 2012

If women are from Venus and men are from Mars, as asserted in the 1992 best-selling book by American author and relationship counselor John Gray, then it might also hold true that chemists are from...

Grinding Chemicals Together in an Effort to be Greener

Published: 18 July 2016

...In 2011, the mechanochemist Tomislav Friscic and his team used mechanochemical methods to make bismuth subsalicylate, the active ingredient of Pepto-Bismol, by grinding together bismuth oxide...

Reinventing chemistry via green chemistry

Published: 25 June 2015

The McGill News Magazine recently highlighted the development of green chemistry in our department, featuring Tomislav Friščić, C.J. Li, Robin Rogers and Audrey Moores. Read more on the magazine...

World-renowned green chemist joining McGill

Published: 30 September 2014

The decision to come to McGill as the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals means Robin Rogers will have to make a number of significant changes to his life...

A better way to make chemicals?

Published: 3 December 2012

Bulk solvents, widely used in the chemical industry, pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. As a result, there is growing interest in avoiding their use by relying on ...

Nitrogen, Nitrogen Footprints and their Management

Friday, November 18, 2016 14:30to18:00

This event is being hosted by the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy (TISPP), within the Faculty of Science at McGill University. This is free, open to the public, no registration...

McGill Chemistry PhD graduate secures a Green Chemistry Research Grant

Published: 10 October 2014

Reuben Hudson (bottom right on the photo) is currnetly a post doctoral fellow at Colby University in Maine, in the group of Jeffrey Katz, where he studies the synthesis of polymers. He secured this...

Making hydrogenation greener

Published: 27 June 2013

Researchers from McGill University, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, Japan) and the Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki, Japan) have discovered a way to make the...

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